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Welcome to StroongeCast Clips,
a selection of highlights from various episodes.
We're gonna start with episode seven, Jake and
Alice.
- Well, my friends are really baffled by it.
They're like, "How does your dad get around the
house?"
Or like, "How does he play piano?"
Or like, "Does he do daily life activities?"
- What do you say?
What do you tell them?
- Um, usually he's like,
well, he like feels with his hands
or he just gets used to it
'cause everything is in the same place most of
the time.
- For me, all of my friends,
none of them know how smart you actually are
with computers and stuff,
how you use your phone or whatever.
And I always try to describe voiceover to them,
but they never understand it.
So- - You've gotta show it.
- Oh, you're saying- - Yeah, I could show them.
But yeah, they just think you sit at home like a
sod
and just do nothing, I think.
(all laughing)
- They don't understand how you do anything.
- Wow.
- I'm the sodding dad.
I do nothing. - That's hilarious.
- That's what they think. - Priceless.
- They're like, "How does he type?"
Especially with the piano stuff.
They're like, "Oh."
- Episode 20.
- Synesthesia.
What was, maybe you should share the one with the
piano key.
- Oh gosh.
That's kind of a bit weird.
People think I'm quite bizarre.
- Well, when we read some of the others out,
I don't think you'll be the only one.
- There is one note on the piano,
which is F4 on the piano, right?
So C4 is the middle of the piano for a lot of
people.
So F4, which is the F above C4,
is the feeling of a boob.
Yup.
In the palm.
I have no answer for why that might be.
So if you're drinking tea and you take it this,
I apologize.
But I can't tell you why that is the case.
I just know it is the case.
Episode 44.
- Communication is key.
- I was so claustrophobic by the end of those
two or three weeks,
because I had to be guided everywhere.
All I wanted to do at the end of the day
was go to the hotel room or sit on a balcony.
And at the time I was single,
so I just go on a dating site.
And that sounds really sad, doesn't it?
But that's all I wanted to do,
because it was the only time I could get some
head space
where I was sort of in my own head
and I didn't have to think about other people
or other people taking me or where am I.
Because I think what people don't realize
is about being blind,
that your adrenaline circuits are on maximum
firing
all the time.
So although you're guiding Andre, Kirsten,
and that's sort of, I can't think of the right
word,
but that's an activity that you're undertaking
and it's you're keeping an eye on him.
Andre's also guiding himself
'cause he's avoiding stuff
and getting out of the way of things
and listening constantly.
So he's probably knackered after a day of that,
just as you're knackered from guiding him.
- Episode 47.
- Cruise cast.
And then you're gonna make me say
what happened next, aren't you?
- Unfortunately, because it was one of the most
scary things
that's ever happened to all of us, I think.
So whilst Jake had gone, he ran.
Obviously it was a very stressful moment
because we were thinking,
well, what if he's lost all of his stuff
if someone's taken everything?
And, or what if he doesn't get back in time?
Like, what do we do?
And we were at this bus stop, sat there,
and I started to feel a bit strange,
just queasy.
And I thought, I feel sick because it's the
stress,
the anxiety of, oh my gosh, what do we do?
And then my ears started to sort of cloud over
and I couldn't hear anything.
And I was feeling really, really dodgy.
And I said to you, I feel like I'm gonna pass out.
I've never passed out in my life, never fainted,
nothing.
So I don't really know, but I just, I felt really
awful.
And I sat down on the floor because the bus stop
was just one of those tiny little, not even a
bench thing.
I sat on the floor and I could feel my whole head
just completely go fuzzy.
I couldn't hear anything.
And then the next thing I remember was a man crouched
down
in front of me saying, are you okay?
Are you okay?
- Yeah, he did.
- And I sat up and went, I think I just fainted.
And he went, oh, okay.
- Episode 60.
- Do you believe in smacking?
When Jake was a toddler, I used to take him to
this group
and there was a mum there with her,
I think it was a little boy.
And I think he'd gone and hit another child or
something.
I mean, he would have been like 18 months to two
years old.
I mean, we're talking little.
He really, he didn't have many words at all.
And he'd hit another child, I think, not hard,
just in the way that they do.
And she went up to him and smacked him on the
hand
and said, we don't smack.
- That's okay, right, sure.
- And I just remember being so baffled by that.
How can you say to a toddler that, I mean, any
child,
but to a very young child who barely even
understands
the world yet, I'm gonna do something to you,
but you're not allowed to do it to anybody else.
- Thanks for listening.
And we will catch you next week.
- Bye.
- Search for StroongeCast wherever you get your
podcasts.
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